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tiompan Apr 22, 2008 18:57:58
Replying to moss

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Hello Moss , I think what Fitz was possibly suggesting and I certainly was , was that wind farms are not going to solve anything and are merely a sop for enviromentalists and the best tha could be said for them is that they will provide a minimal amount of additional employment and produce quite a lot of capital for the developers .
Hello Tiompan, I'm not being controversial just tend to think out loud ;) wind farms may be part of the answer though, and to reply to Jane's question, there is the individual choice of photovoltaics (expensive at the moment) and microgeneration - also expensive.
Callanish Stones against a background of 5 turbines? there are the 'wastelands' of Dartmoor and Exmoor to consider not to mention the Cornish coast....
Ooddly enough I think wind farms are reminiscent of some outdoor sculptures and as long as the locals are happy , which is unlikely , they can be quite good "fun" .just one of those things , like finding Ferrybridge or Drax attractive but nevertheless they are not the solution and never will be .Of course Lovelock says the only answer , if we want all that energy , is nuclear . Personally I doubt we have the courage/will /capability to do without all the trappings . It looks like it's going to be interesting though as in the "hope you live in interesting times " quip .
Stonehenge , better say something megalithic .

F fitzcoraldo
fitzcoraldo Apr 23, 2008 07:01:41
Replying to tiompan

I have a short term solution that I think may work and would at least buy us a little more time to put in a place a decent national strategy of power generation using renewable sources.
We totally withdraw our troops from Afghanistan and Iraq and send them to invade the west coast of Norway. Norway is self sufficient in energy from the power they generate via hydro schemes but they also have some of the largest oil and gas reserves in the world, reserves that they don’t really need. So we head over there and liberate these reserves. The population of Norway is only 6 million so they should be easy plus they owe us a blood debt from all that raping, pillaging and slave trading that the Vikings did.
We could also establish a few colonies over there and solve the problem of the shortage of land for building. I suggest that to ‘support our boys at the front’, our first wave of colonists should be the readership of the daily mail.
stonehenge